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Calocaerus And Parthenius eunuchs, were respectively chamberlain and major-domo to AEmilianus, a Christian of Armenia, consul under the emperor Philip. Decius endeavored to induce them to sacrifice, and upon their refusal sent them to torture. They were afterwards condemned to the stake, and the fire not burning, they were despatched by a blow on the … Continue reading “Calocaerus And Parthenius”

Calocaerius (1) Said to have been deputy and successor of Apollinaris at Ravenna, and to have held the see from the time of Vespasian to that of Adrian. (2) Martyr at Albenga, on the coast of Genoa, put by Usuard, at Brescia, March 19 or April 18. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Caloaerius bishop of Claudiopolis; in Pontus, was represented by a, deputy at the council of A.D. 449 at Ephesus. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Calo, Pietro, Of Venice was a Dominican, who lived about 1300, and wrote some lives of the saints and other treatises. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Calo, Johann Adam a German Lutheran theologian, was born at Belgern, in Saxony. He pursued his studies at Wittenberg, where, having received his degrees in 1705, he became, in 1707, professor. In 1716 he was made deacon at Schlieben, and in 1733 at Schonewalde, where he remained until his death, which occurred in 1742. He … Continue reading “Calo, Johann Adam”

Calno (Isa 10:9). SEE CALNEH. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature Calno [Cal’no] Unknown, unless it is the same as Calneh. Isa 10:9. Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary Calno Cal’no. See Calneh. Fuente: Smith’s Bible Dictionary

Calneh, Calno CALNEH, CALNO.1. Calneh is associated in Gen 10:10 with Babylon, Erech, and Accad as the earliest cities of Shinar. The Talmudic assertion that Calneh means Nippur receives some support from the age and importance of Nippur, but it is not known that this was ever the name of that city. Kulunu, the early … Continue reading “Calneh, Calno”

CALNEH Called Calno, Isa 10:9 and Canneh, Eze 27:23, one of Nimrod’s cities, Gen 10:10, and afterwards called Ctesiphon; it lay on the east bank of the Tigris opposite Seleucia, twenty miles below Bagdad. Ctesiphon was a winter residence of the Parthian kings. Nothing now remains but the ruins of a palace and mounds of … Continue reading “Calneh”

Calne, Council Of (Concilium Calnense). Calne is a town in Wiltshire, England, where a convention was held in 979, in the fourth year of Edward, king and martyr, in consequence of the dispute then rife between the monks and clergy, the former of whom were unduly favored by Dunstan, archbishop of Canterbury, to the great … Continue reading “Calne, Council Of”

Calnan, John a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Ireland about 1833. He emigrated to America in early life; was converted at Carlinville, Ill., and in. 1858 entered the Southern Illinois Conference. In 1861 he was granted a superannuated relation, and shortly afterwards died, Nov. 21,1861. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1862, p. 211. Fuente: … Continue reading “Calnan, John”